TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graffi,Giorgio
TI  - 200 years of syntax: a critical survey 
T2  - Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences,
SN  - 9789027284570
AV  - P291 .G69 2001eb
U1  - 415 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - J. Benjamins
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - History
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - Histoire
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-518) and indexes; 200 YEARS OF SYNTAX A CRITICAL SURVEY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1. 'History of linguistic science' and 'history of linguistic thought' -- 2. Syntax and psychology: vicissitudes of a relationship -- 3. Overall design of the volume -- PART I THE AGE OF PSYCHOLOGISM IN LINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER 2 THE RISE AND FALL OF 'PSYCHOLOGISTIC' SYNTAX -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The legacy of the grammaire générale and its abandonment -- 1.1 'Philosophical ' grammar -- 1.2 Humboldt's views on syntax; 2. Steinthal's program and the birth of psychologism in linguistics -- 2.1 Hegel, Herbart and Humboldt's influence on Steinthal -- 2.2 The ""divorce"" of grammar from logic -- 2.3 'Ethnopsychology' and language classification -- 3. Developments of psychologism -- 3.1 Ethnopsychology in Gabelentz -- 3.2 Paul and other opponents of ethnopsychology -- 3.3 Wundt's impact on linguistics -- 3.4 The debate between Wundt and the Neogrammarians -- 4. The criticism of psychologism: Brentano, Marty, Husserl -- 4.1 Brentano's 'intentionalistic' psychology -- 4.2 Marty's philosophy of language -- 4.3 Husserl; 5. Towards the crisis of psychologism -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Language as a 'social phenomenon ': the French school and the school of Geneva -- 5.3 Logic and psychology vs. grammar in Jespersen -- 5.4 Bühler and the functional view of language -- CHAPTER 3 ""WHAT IS SYNTAX?"" -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Crisis in the logic-based model of syntax -- 2. Grammatical, logical and psychological categories -- 2.1 'Syntactic ' order and 'psychological' order -- 2.2 The logical' and 'psychological' subject and predicate -- 2.3 'Subject' is not a linguistic category; 2.4 Towards the abandoning of 'psychological' categories -- 3. The debate on impersonals -- 3.1 Do 'subjectless' sentences exist? -- 3.2 What does the subject pronoun of impersonal sentences mean? -- CHAPTER 4 THE ANALYSES OF THE SENTENCE AND OF THE WORD GROUPS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. 'What is a sentence?' -- 1.1 The rise and fall of the equation sentence -- judgement -- 1.2 Main clauses and dependent clauses -- 1.3 New models of the sentence: 'psychological', 'grammatical', 'communicative ' -- 1.4 The sentence as judgement: resumption of the old model in a psychologistic framework; 1.5 Criticisms of Wundt's conception of the sentence and new approaches to the problem -- 1.6 Ries ' theory of the sentence -- 1.7 Jespersen 's notion of 'nexus ' -- 2. The nature and classification of word groups -- 2.1 Word groups vs. sentences -- 2.2 Attribution vs. predication -- 2.3 The internal structure of word groups -- 2.4 Word order inside word groups -- PART II THE AGE OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS -- CHAPTER 5 THE ROLE OF SYNTAX IN THE STRUCTURALIST SYSTEMS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. New insights and ties with the past -- 1.1 Saussure 's dichotomies and their impact on syntactic research
N2  - This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. Moreover, it illustrates how the enormous development of syntactic research in the last fifty years has already condemned even several recent ideas and analyses to oblivion, and deeply influenced current research programs. The wealth of research undert
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